238 research outputs found
Marriage record of Spoto, Pietro and Leto, Francesca
No full textMarriage license for Pietro Spoto and Francesca Leto. Vincent Greco was the Notary Public
Barriers and Drivers for the Integration of ESG into Risk Management and Performance Measurement Systems: a Field Study in the Italian Context
No full textTaking the firm’s perspective, the third chapter (Barriers and Drivers for the Integration of ESG into Risk Management and Performance Measurement Systems: a Field Study in the Italian Context) examines the integration of ESG factors into risk management and performance measurement systems through the lens of management accounting change. This chapter presents a field study consisting of 12 interviews with four Italian companies that voluntarily disclose non-financial information and highlights the factors that either facilitate or hinder this process. Facilitating factors include changes to stakeholders’ expectations and the regulatory landscape, while hindering factors include a lack of knowledge about ESG issues and inadequate information systems. The findings suggest that companies are increasingly aware of the need to implement ESG into their management systems, although the process is still in its early stages. This study adds to the literature on ESG-oriented management control systems and offers insights to companies seeking to initiate the ESG integration process
Energy transformations in primary school: outcomes from a research based experimentation
No full textEnergy is a topic which appears many times in Italian curricula. The school puts a strong socioeconomical
attention to protection of the environment and experts often are invited to make speeches
on this topic in primary classroom. This type of approaches are those of newspapers and the common
language. A vast literature has highlighted those learning difficulties linked to common sense way of
looking to energy concepts and its processing (Millar R. 2005, Heron P., Michelini M. and Stefanel A.,
2008). Didactic proposals on energy topic of different approaches (Kaper, W. and Goedhart, M. 2002;
Hobson A. 2004) offer to the teacher the opportunity to treat this topic revisiting concepts in such a
way as to help children overcome the conceptual knots (Driver R. and Warrington L. 1985; Heron et.
al. 2008) that the daily context poses. In a research based experimentation the HMS (HMS - Heron et.
al. 2008) approach is adopted to build the concepts of energy by means of experimental exploration,
and to complete a teaching of energy based on the content offered by text book: energy form, energy
production. The experimental class includes twenty three 8-year-old children of a school of Perugia, Italy.
HMS educational path has been applied using Inquiry based learning strategy and monitoring learning by
means of boarding diary, in(I)-out(O)- and post(P)-tests (IOP tests). Some interesting elements emerge,
especially concerning transformation concept, which appears in different key-situations explored
Research based discussions on optics with teachers to integrate professional development with everyday school work
No full textWithin the Italian project on innovation in teaching/learning IDIFO4, research based labs
for in-service teacher professional development was carried out. In the rich environment of
20 kindergarten, primary and low secondary school teachers, the discussion of content
knowledge (CK) was integrated with activities on simple experiments proposed in
examples of coherent paths, according to Experiential Teacher Education Model (ETEM).
Activities were focused on the analysis and the discussion of tested educational paths both
on conceptual change, subject matter content and educational plans. Action oriented
contents and methods emerge as teaching/learning proposals based on research on
children learning processes, where they melt in coherent paths as an outcome of the
experienced modules of formative intervention. Optics lab offers an example of this kind of
integration between educational research and teacher professional development
Of Leto: a staged concert reading
No full textabstract: Of Leto: a staged concert reading is a new work development created by Alexander Tom and Daniel Oberhaus focusing on collegiate collaboration, production process, and creative intuition. An original story was adapted by Daniel Oberhaus into a working libretto. Alexander Tom created a two-act musical-drama and utilized the colleges on the Arizona State University \u2014 Tempe campus: Barrett, the Honors College, W.P. Carey School of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts: School of Music and School of Theatre, Film and Dance. This cross-discipline staged concert reading was comprised of a libretto by Daniel Oberhaus, music, additional lyrics and orchestrations by Alexander Tom, and orchestrations by Drew Nichols. The performance included a thirteen-piece orchestra and fourteen vocalists in undergraduate and graduate programs. This paper includes research on Benjamin Britten and Myfanwy Piper's Death in Venice and Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Its purpose is to impart a comparative analysis on the process of collaboration in opera, musical theatre, and the newly determined "musical-drama" \u2014 the genre in which Of Leto resides. Use of historical research will expound on the evolution of musical theatre along with each team's collaborative processes in relation to the music (lyrics and melody respectively), the libretto, and the production. The research permits conclusions regarding the possible practices to utilize in creating new student works like Of Leto
Double Materiality in Corporate Sustainability: Insights from Italian Companies
No full textThis chapter explores the double materiality assessment process, which is a key aspect of sustainability reporting. Through a comparative analysis of three Italian companies that voluntarily undertake the double materiality assessment (DMA), the study analyzes four aspects of such a process that according to literature are critical for the effective integration of DMA in company's activities. Particularly, these aspects are the objectives that companies aim to achieve by adopting the DMA, the approaches they follow for its implementation, the role of stakeholder engagement in each of the approach adopted, and the organizational units involved in the process. The analysis reveals a nuanced landscape highlighting the differences in the objectives companies aim to achieve that does not limit only to compliance with sustainability reporting standards, in the approaches followed (technical-rational vs. critical-dialogic), and in the role the stakeholders play in the DMA process. As a result, this study contributes to the expanding literature on materiality in the context of sustainability reporting by answering the call for more empirical studies and its results can be used by preparers, auditors, and standard setters for their respective purposes
A new (2D+1) cluster finding algorithm for photometric redshift surveys .
No full textEditors: Gaetano Belvedere, Giuseppe Leto and Francesca Zuccarell
The Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector Software for the VST
No full textThe effects of atmospheric differential refraction on astrophysical measurements are well known. In particular, as a ray of light passes through the atmosphere, its direction is altered by the effects of atmospheric refraction. The amount of this effect depends basically on the variation of the refractive index along the path of the ray. The real accuracy needed in the atmosphere model and in the calculation of the correction to be applied is of course, considerably worse, especially at large zenith angles. On the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) the use of an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) is foreseen at a wide zenith distance range. This paper describes the software design and implementation aspects regarding the analytical correction law discovered to correct the refraction effect during observations with VST
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